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System Properties Comparison Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RRDtool vs. SpatiaLite vs. Sphinx

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NamePercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Spatial extension of SQLiteOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodboss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodboss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperPerconaTobias OetikerAlessandro FurieriSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2015199920082001
Current release3.4.10-2.10, November 20171.8.0, 20225.0.0, August 20203.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxHP-UX
Linux
server-lessFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSONin-process shared library
Pipes
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptnonono
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovia In-Memory Engineyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnonono

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